Walking a Dirt Road | earthstonestation

For Your Health

Walking is a low-impact exercise that can lead to a higher level of fitness and health. Spending that time close to nature is even better and can lead to a higher level of consciousness. There are lots of folks practicing good health and exercise by walking the golf course, biking city paths or strolling through the parks. Unfortunately that environment is the ever present concrete and macadam roads, the bricks of buildings, glass and steel, the works of man. Health is a balance of mind body spirit and there is a model for that in nature.

To restore a healthy spirit I?m not suggesting? tramping off to the wilderness, mountain climbing or making this an expedition. The balance of mind-body-spirit takes practice, involvement and change.??A little exercise is all that is required to loosen up stiff joints, straighten the mind, expand the lungs and put a glow on the cheeks. For a change do it away from the works of man and industrial hum and find a place where wind and birds are the sound as your feet touch down on native soil, along some farmers country lane. For your health try Walking a Dirt Road.

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In about a 1/4 mile you will find your stride,

a half mile more you should be limber,

lungs are working not so shallow

taking in the air.

Mud caked shoes

sun lit face

wind blown? hair

a mile is walked

at a gentle pace.

Trudging on, deep in thought

thinking, sorting, cataloging

loose threads, scattered dreams,

dangling conversations

all arrested,

when a glow of color

calls attention

all the senses

heightened, answer

eager to investigate,

the mystery of nature

some detail of design

or? magnificence of scale.

Just mystified in awe

how things so

fine and beautiful

are packaged up

so small.

Then looking up,

eyes opened wide, you see

the beauty of the earth

is right there at your side.

Your outdoor health

is a simple thing to do.

There is beauty waiting

right in front of you.

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Walking a dirt road

you will discover

the world is full of new adventures

and things yet to explore.

For your health.

Happy Trails,? Dohn

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